Kansas forward Ioanna Chatzileonti made an impact in the FIBA U20 Women's European Championships, which concluded over the weekend. Chatzileonti, a junior, averaged 18.3 points per game, which was third in Division B, and 9.9 rebounds per game to help Greece finish in fifth place. She started all seven games, played 30.4 minutes per game, had four double-doubles and led her team in scoring once and in ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold said he expects the offense and defense to look different this season now that he, his assistant coaches and his players have a foundation to build upon entering their second year together. Leipold, speaking Wednesday at Big 12 media days at AT&T Stadium, noted that things should look especially changed on defense. The Jayhawks added 12 defensive players via transfers ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Earl Bostick Jr. played for three head coaches and eight position coaches during five seasons at Kansas. But with a sixth year of eligibility available and the most stability he's had since graduating high school, there was no doubt Bostick, the Jayhawks' starting left tackle, was going to return for this season. "I stuck it out because I wanted to change the program since I got here in ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Brett Yormark remembers tuning to CBS on Saturday afternoons while growing up in New Jersey in the late 1970s and watching Bob Knight pace the sidelines as the coach of the Indiana men's basketball team. The Hoosiers were one of the most successful teams in the country under Knight, who led them to the NCAA championship three times in 12 seasons. They left such an imprint on Yormark that, ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — One of the first discussions coach Lance Leipold had with his players when the Kansas football team reconvened for the start of winter workouts in January was that they would need to begin to embrace internal competition. No one's role was safe, he told them, and he stressed that not only would those on the team be striving to earn a larger responsibility the following season, others who ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Kansas athletic director Travis Goff said Wednesday that he believes in the direction of the Big 12 amid the latest round of conference realignment, even though it seems "it's a natural sentiment" the era of the superconference is beginning. Goff, who spoke Wednesday at the Big 12 media days at AT&T Stadium, did not say whether the university would consider moving its athletic ...